Canada Debates Emissions

Published: February 6, 2007

Canada's Parliament urged the minority Conservative government on Monday to stick to emissions targets laid out by the Kyoto protocol on global warming -- targets that the government contends cannot be met.

Legislators voted 161 to 115 to back a motion calling on the government to commit itself to the Kyoto protocol. Although the motion was nonbinding, opposition legislators will use it to press Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases are now 33 percent above the level it has agreed to reach by 2012.